dailyprompt

Which aspects do you think makes a person unique? Life is not performance art. The markings found on those who can resist temptation and mimetic desire while sustaining individuality and embracing boredom contain clear differentiators. The same goes for the deliberate kitsch. Those who understand the typicality of taste and design harbor a marketer’s edge.…

Nothing, nothing eponymous, nothing in name. Names misapprehend reality, yet a name can predetermine futures. Name a kid, Leo, for instance; he might seek the arts or dominate football. Conversely, give a kid an evil tribal name, and he may get in trouble. Or just donate millions to a hospital of choice and get your…

When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up? The mental state was always skewed. Even at that young age, the business of living didn’t have to negotiate with time. Everything felt fleeting, yet we knew exactly what we wanted to build. Those loops of doom stood quiescent as we…

How has technology changed your job? Wildly influential, the formative years shaped our noggin for years to come. And then suddenly, we’re all tapped out? The idea is to maintain strong open-eardness. Technology intends to touch up interests that have faded from the tastes of time. If we use tech properly, they say, we can…

What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had? To rekindle a childlike wonder requires marshaling the “play.” In theory, the lego mind-set catapultes the imagination. In reality, the extra practice puts the bones in the goose. As if you can do some genetic screening for creativity. There’s no substitute for stepping…

What is the last thing you learned? It was at war with sound thinking but it made sense: to try things he had never done before. Because at the end of the road stood the extraordinary. Sorrow management conflicted his thinking. But the doubts became doubts. The good, bad, and ugly- he looked at life…

Tell us about your favorite pair of shoes, and where they’ve taken you. The simultaneous belief that he could dunk and take over the opponent with a killer-crossover. That was the lie the 10-year-old told himself, anyway. The fantasy always ranges into credibility on the canvass where shostly outlines take shape. Above the rim, the…

You get some great, amazingly fantastic news. What’s the first thing you do? The news, internalized, is not your friend. How one traverses atypically from the default sensationalism to celebratory status must be coerced. ‘Fantastic’ news, coincidentally, requires that one step back from the overdose. Drama sells eyeballs but accuracy–the facts — cue one into…

Do you need a break? From what? The non-stop pressure, it builds and we react, doing even more like a slot-machine addict. So busy, we forget to laugh.  Even the conscious automaton pursues self-infliction. There’s little breathe and stop, emotions lost in a sea of coerced productivity. How about talking our thoughts for a walk…

Describe your most ideal day from beginning to end. Not too long ago, the cafe served as a third place between work and home. It paid out with wifi and goaded free-expression, even if that just meant communicating online. The cafe offered an invitation to think. It was a way of commiting to creativity. For…

How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life? My human cognitive architecture says that time is illusory. Why should I bow down to the clock? However, pleasure and expectation straighten out extant myopia. The language of the future calls, a siren song, to the anticipation of the next…

Something on your “to-do list” that never gets done. The tyranny of the to-do list. It keeps us organized and focused yet breathes down our neck to apply urgency to “everything.” We end up writing more things down than we can achieve. The end result is more stress. But what if we treated the to-do…